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Monday, November 24, 2014

The End of the Process

The process of laminating fabric as developed by Claire Benn, has a bigger learning curve than I anticipated. I purchased her book, Paper & Metal Leaf Lamination, read it, watched the DVD and thought about the process. She recommends printing the papers to be laminated at least a week before the lamination process is begun which I did not strictly adhere to and I believe this is one factor that affected the lack of stronger colors in my fabric.

The collage above shows the photographs I began with. The two on the left and the black and white photo were photos of iris manipulated with a kaleidoscope filter in Photoshop. The brown photo was pine leaves, also manipulated.

The final process, after rubbing with oil pastel colors to create texture and fusing the pieces to a white sheet, was minimal quilting. No batting was used. The quilting design was based on the diagonal lines in the black and white photo above.The borders were sew on after quilting and the last step was to adhere the completed piece to a gallery wrapped canvas.

I am not sure I will try this process again. It was very labor intensive and probably takes months to perfect the technique. The outcome is different than what I anticipated. It is definitely one of a kind. I still have no come up with a title, so give me some suggestions.

6 comments:

I think it is very intriguing and I see an aerial view or map of a rural area of farms and gardens. (guess where my mind is) ...a Treasure Map. I really like that you did the straight diagonal stitching, it keeps me studying the whole piece, discovering new treasures .... now I see something different.... I'm looking forward to hearing the name suggestions.

This is such an intriguing piece Judy. I have been gazing into it for a while now and can't seem to tear myself away. I can see where Gina's idea for a treasure map comes from, but I can also see this as something or someone hiding in an old building. This is their view through the window. Then on the other hand, I also see what might be considered a discarded piece of computer motherboard circuitry. Hmmm, going to go look some more....this is a very intriguing piece.

while the images did not result in strong colour, I really like the subtlety of your piece, and like Gina, really like the diagonal quilting on it. It was fascinating hearing about the process, and it does have me intrigued, although I know I don't have time to take on something new! Thank you for introducing us to this process!

An interesting piece, it sounds like you learned from doing the process. I like the texture, it reminds me of decay or aging. Funny, I also see maps in part of it! I don't know that I have a title for you- but decay is the lasting impression I'm left with.